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Sagalla Caecilian

Amphibians

The Sagalla caecilian is a limbless, worm like amphibian, family Herpelidae, known only from a single isolated mountain, Sagalla Hill, in Kenya's Taita Hills, within an area of about twenty square kilometers. It lives underground in moist forest soil and farmland edges, using a pair of small retractable sensory tentacles near its snout, and is classified as endangered because its entire range lies outside any protected area.

Facts
Scientific Name
Boulengerula niedeni 1
Conservation Status
Endangered 1
Sources
1. Boulengerula niedeni (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q220814 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): endangered.
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